About

Holli Carrell is a Pushcart-nominated poet originally from Utah, now living in Cincinnati, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati with a certificate in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Her poems and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, The Journal, Salt Hill, Bennington Review, Quarterly West, Blackbird, Poetry Northwest, Tupelo Quarterly, The Florida Review, Black Wall/Dark Room, and other places. In 2020, her chapbook, Sever, was a finalist in Quarterly West’s annual chapbook competition.

Holli received her MFA in poetry from Hunter College in New York City, where she lived for seven years and worked at a leading independent publishing house in marketing and publicity. As an undergraduate, she double majored in Film Studies and English Literature at the University of Utah. She has received support and honors from the Unterberg Poetry Center, NY State Summer Writers Institute, the University of Cincinnati, and Hunter College, where she was a recipient of the Colie Hoffman Poetry Award and a Norma Lubetsky Friedman Scholarship.